San Diego loses population as immigration nosedives. What are the consequences?

As first seen at The San Diego Union Tribune: Dr. Daniel Enemark, chief economist of the Policy & Innovation Center points out that when the population and labor force contract, so, too, does the economy.

Excerpt: “It’s decidedly bad news,” Enemark, chief economist of the Policy & Innovation Center, said of the downturn in foreign-born arrivals. “The size of our economy is simply the number of workers times the productivity of those workers. So when the productivity goes down, or when the number of workers goes down, the economy shrinks.

“And people who come as immigrants typically are people who are coming to work to make more money so that they can support their families, and they are, on average, hard-working people who are going to fill important roles in our economy. Not having those people here is not good.”